The Solutn to "Gay" Insults: Freedom of Speech | Psychology Today

Contents:

• ARE YOU GAY BY BIRTH OR IS SOMETHG YOU VELOP?
• AM I GAY?
• WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?
• AM I GAY OR NOT QUIZ?
• HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY
• IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?
• MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER
• WHEN IS WRONG TO LL SOMETHG "GAY"?
• THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH
• JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY
• IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?
• THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS
• SYNONYMS OF GAY

ARE YOU GAY BY BIRTH OR IS SOMETHG YOU VELOP?

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail.

AM I GAY?

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN. “There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.

Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

WHY ARE PEOPLE GAY? GAY BY CHOICE OR IS BEG GAY GEIC?

There's no difference what "" someone to be gay as what "" someone to be straight or any other sexual the 70s, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn has been at the foreont of rearch around the topic of sexual orientatn, sexual preference, and LGBT people.

It is has been found that, for example, men who relled beg feme durg childhood are gay, and women who relled playg a more mascule style intified as lbian. The immune rponse of the mother chang, and this change has been associated wh an creasg chance that the child will be gay. A recent study, published March 2020, found that men wh olr brothers are more likely to gay.

It is suggted that the more male children a mother has, the more likely the youngt child will intify as a gay man. In other new geic rearch, has been suggted that the ncept of beg born wh a ‘gay gene’ that term if an dividual prefers same-sex partners is not real. Before this study, 2015 there had been rearch suggtg homosexualy uld be lked to the X chromosome.

AM I GAY OR NOT QUIZ?

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HOW TO KNOW IF YOU ARE GAY

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Everyone gets nfed about their sexualy gays, lbians, bisexual or straight as they grow up.

One day will jt click and you will know no one else n tell you what you are only you n tell yourself or work out for yourself what sexualy you areYou're gay at birth, but you may not unrstand yourself until later life. For some people, they were gay g out of the womb, and for others they didn't have this revelatn until much later life.

IS A PERSON ‘BORN GAY’, OR IS BEG GAY A LEARNED BEHAVR?

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Homosexualy, along wh any other inty of sexual orientatn along the spectm is somethg that a person is born AS.

MISS MANNERS: NOSY WOMEN AT RETIREMENT MUNY ASK RINT ‘ARE YOU GAY?’ DURG DNER

Sometim, tak longer to realize your are gay or bi by birth, but you have to found out. This may be due to more tn about sexual orientatns and a general qutng are gay by birth. Your choice is whether you're gonna act upon or are gay by birth my opn, you don’t choose , and you don’t realise until later on so i gus ’s velopment Sexual orientatns are somethg we are born wh, they n't be fluenced by external factors or by anythg that happens our life.

Even when I was young, I remember feelg attracted to mal and femal, and I didn't even know what meant to be 's an answer that is not yet termed but I believe that everyone is born gay but choose bee of var societal actually, a lot of people are nstantly talkg about this and discsg this. Everyone has their own opn, Like if a child has gay parents, he/she don't have to turn out gay as well, but he/she n. I believe that uld also be both, somethg you have, a feelg but velop while more I reflect and nsir the circumstanc; I would say y people are born gay.

This means that you n be straight, maly straight but not spisg same sex, bisexual, maly gay but not spisg other sex, or gay. Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc.

WHEN IS WRONG TO LL SOMETHG "GAY"?

Estimat as to the number of gay people the populatn range om 1--20 to 1--10, so why are some people gay?

In other words, 5-10% of people experience same-sex sexual attractn or behavr; of urse, this don't speak to what mak people gay. No one knows for certa why any dividual is gay, but the current thought is that beg gay is not a choice.

THE SOLUTN TO "GAY" INSULTS: FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Morn science is workg to show that geics is one of the of beg gay, although some science nflicts this area.

"In recent years, evince has accumulated that a homosexual orientatn is hered. Study of fay history reveals that homosexual men have more homosexuals their fay tree than do heterosexuals. The precise gen volved the of beg gay have not yet been intified but they appear to e om the mother.

Addnally, some studi have found that the bras om homosexuals differ om the bras of heterosexuals. While psychologil factors may crease the likelihood that someone is gay, no sgle factor is known to e homosexualy. It very much appears that same-sex sexual attractn is not a choice but actg on is; so if you fe gay as the mere prence of same-sex attractn, then om everythg we unrstand, beg gay is not a choice.

JAGUARS STRENGTH COACH KEV MAXEN COM OUT AS GAY

If, on the other hand, you nsir someone to be gay only if they act on their same-sex attractn then beg gay n be nsired a choice pendg on an dividual's behavr. Whether science n ultimately prove the blogy of beg gay or not, 's important to support all adults their choic no matter how they intify. Numero scientists, psychologists, healthre profsnals, and even relig activists are batg the nature of homosexualy (as well as other kds of sexualy).

In this Am I Gay quiz, we'll try to terme several mon signs of homosexualy and see how many you exhib. Notice to Rear: "The Boards of both CERC Canada and CERC USA are aware that the topic of homosexualy is a ntroversial one that eply affects the personal liv of many North Amerins. Both Boards strongly reerate the Catechism's teachg that people who self-intify as gays and lbians mt be treated wh 'rpect, passn, and sensivy' (CCC #2358).

IS TROYE SIVAN’S ‘RH’ SEXY FUN OR GAY DETR?

CERC will not publish articl which, the opn of the edor, expose gays and lbians to hatred or tolerance.

THERE IS NO ‘GAY GENE.’ THERE IS NO ‘STRAIGHT GENE.’ SEXUALY IS JT PLEX, STUDY NFIRMS

study found that nearly 26% of young teens were not sure if they were gay, straight.

reason not to "try out" beg gay is to avoid temptatn to engage risky sexual. problems for homosexuals are greater than heterosexuals the Netherlands, even.

SYNONYMS OF GAY

Gay dividuals are romantilly or sexually attracted to people who are the same genr as them. If you’re more aroed by people who are the same genr as you, you might be gay. Keep md that experienc of sexual aroal are extremely nuanced, and aren’t ncrete proof that you’re gay.